Overview
Creating Knowledge formulates an interdisciplinary position on urban design that recognizes the huge range of loaded issues we bring to the subject today. What are the ethical obligations of design, for example, amid the effects of climate change, multiculturalism and globalization on the contemporary urban landscape? Is there room for real creativity in the kinds of issues that face urban planning today? Tackling these and other subjects, various experts from the fields of philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, art and urban development comment on the potential and actual application of creativity to those thornier scenarios in which questions of ethical urban design might arise. Examples of internationally renowned landscape architecture indicate how closely the production of ideas, design practice and aesthetic expression are bound up with research and the investigation of the landscape.